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LWD,
LWD,

Yes, but also require Apple to expand its EU software to people not in the EU

“Both is good” El Dorado meme

LWD,

I… Don’t like Apple at all. I’m engaging in a thing called a thought experiment, which is required to rationally assess why somebody might not want to throw away things they have purchased and devote both more time and more money to something that doesn’t work as well as it.

So I don’t know what all the cool killer Mac apps. Replace Photoshop with the name of a bunch of cool killer Mac apps, and repeat the question.

LWD,

You can’t refund anything that’s not physical, for one…

LWD,

Gimp has a small subset of Photoshop features… That’s… Common knowledge

LWD,

Not sure if it’s a fallacy if it’s about addressing people who have spent a ton on an ecosystem and can’t just devote more money to buy the alternative and time to figure out the parts that aren’t compatible

LWD,

Okay, so you would advise someone who bought, say, Photoshop on a Mac OS to consider that cost sunk, and then to purchase what on Linux?

LWD,

Apple: opens its wallet

LWD,

I know that, but why did you bring it up in order to contrast it with Mozilla’s consumer base? Do you mean to say that Google is the actual paying customer?

It seems like such a bizarre thing to bring up at all.

LWD,

Are these customers donating, or purchasing mozilla products or services so that mozilla doesn’t have to rely on google’s donations?

I’m confused what you’re trying to say here.

Are you saying that Google has more of a right to dictate what Mozilla does because Google gives Mozilla the most money?

Are you saying Google told Mozilla to work on things other than Firefox with the money they were given?

Why bring up Google at all?

LWD,
LWD,

What’s the alternative to $5,000 of DRM encrypted media exclusively served by Apple?

The point of this thought experiment is to understand that sunk cost is a real thing outside of a fallacy.

LWD,

I (and other people) have already said that re-buying the same products and learning alternative ones is expensive in both time and money. That’s the point.

And I don’t know a ton of iOS killer apps but you would probably have to convince people with a ton of effort that Procreate is replaced by something on Android, let alone any other app I don’t know about

LWD,

You asked what parts aren’t compatible, and one answer is everything bought for Apple computers, iPhones, iPads, etc. Apps, media, anything that isn’t subscription based.

LWD,

Mozilla: ignores years of customer complaints and requests

Mozilla: creates new product nobody asked for

Fans: “What’s wrong with Product?”

LWD,

Apple: innovating, despite their best efforts

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A less private Tor or a hyper VPN.

A bit less private because things are going through one fewer hop, in addition to having to sign up. In my experience with Invisiv, it’s much faster and more reliable than Tor, but slower and much less stable than a traditional VPN.

It would be cool if more commercial VPN companies adopted this kind of tech.

LWD,

But in the case of iVPN, do they run both of the servers themselves? That’s always what I wondered about.

LWD,

After reading their documentation a little closer, I discovered something else unsavory about Private Relay: it “relays” your approximate location, as it could usually be derived from your IP address.

Updated my comment.

LWD,

Session is just a rip of Signal (minus privacy features), funded by a cryptocurrency that’s a rip of Monero. I wouldn’t touch their stuff.

LWD,

Nostr is a public, “all your content are belong to us” platform designed for the transmission of cryptocurrency and increasing its value for its owners first, and privacy dead last.

LWD,

I am absolutely aghast that Firefox would say Firefox is the best web browser. Their chart is, however, open to external audit so it is entirely unimpeachable.

(This is a parody of people who were arguing in favor of an “independent” browser privacy website run by someone paid by one of the browser companies)

LWD,

I prefer Firefox(forks) but would also like to know what they’re talking about.

LWD,

Simplifiedprivacy dot com needs to be blacklisted from Lemmy communities, it’s a blog trying to sell some really silly services.

As for Session, they’ve never made an original product that I’ve ever seen - they took Signal and Monero, peeled off the labels, and made them (especially Signal, IMO) worse in both aesthetics and privacy protection.

And the company behind this is in Australia, a country where you need to weaken products (by adding backdoors) upon government request.

LWD,

From metadata alone, you could identify somebody at a strip club on Friday, a church on Sunday, and an STD clinic on Tuesday

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